Chris, My understanding is that unless you create a theme from scratch, with all the template files, you need to use the structure of a "base" theme. Therefore, you modify the templates and css files in the renamed copies of the files. This becomes your own "subtheme". If you want to do a theme from scratch you must create the other files. Pia
From: "Pia Oliver" <pia@piasworld.com> To: support@drupal.org Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:02:07 AM Subject: Re: [support] Sub-theme
Re: [support] Sub-theme Have you tried:
1. Make a copy of the "Bartik" folder from the core>themes file. 2. Put this folder in your sites>all>themes folder 3. rename this folder "bartik-cjm 4. open the "bartik.info file and add "stylesheets[all][] = css/local.css" 5. Rename bartik.info file to "bartik-cjm" 5a. Create a file in the css folder called "local.css" since it's here you will be over riding the Bartik original css files 6. check all the other files in the "bartik-cjm" folder for "Bartik" and replace this with "bartik-cjm" 7. Go to Admin/appearance and you will now see your subtheme "bartik-cjm"
Pia
Hi Pia,
No. I haven't done that for a very specific reason and that reason is that your recommended procedure does not give me a sub-theme; it gives me a custom theme which is a modified copy of Bartik rather than a sub-classed descendant. In this case, I am no longer inheriting from the Bartik base theme; I will have a copy which means that any changes to the base theme will be ignored and I don't really have a sub-theme; I have a modified new base-theme. I am lead to believe that what I have done is sufficient. (<https://drupal.org/node/225125>https://drupal.org/node/225125), but clearly there is something that I don't understand, because my understanding is at variance with practice.
Thanks for the help,
Chris.
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